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This is a brand new title designed as a companion to the best-sellingRSPB Handbook of British Birds. This RSPB-endorsed guide includessections covering over 200 of the mammal, bird, amphibian and reptile,invertebrate, spider, insect, butterfly, moth, wild flower, gardenplant, tree and shrub, and mushroom and toadstool species you arelikely to find in your garden. The concise, practical text covers identification, habits,characteristics, food and garden conservation. Additional introductorysections about garden habitats detail, among other topics, how to plantfor the seasons, how to make a pond or bog garden to attract newspecies into your garden, and how to build a hedgehog box or a nest boxfor birds to encourage your garden visitors to stick around for longer. This brand new RSPB Handbook provides a complete, single source of basic information to our most familiar garden wildlife.

These lurid and ambitious poems capture a contemporary sense of art and love that is both reticent and revelatory. Sound, rhythm, and formal experimentation coalesce into a powerful collection that combines the foreign forms of haiku, tanka, and ghazals with the rich, familiar imagery of the Maritimes and catholicity of allusion and cultural references.

Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and forty shows for the American stage. In this absorbing book, Geoffrey Block examines Rodgers’s entire career, providing rich details about the creation, staging, and critical reception of some of his most popular musicals. Block traces Rodgers’s musical education, early work, and the development of his musical and dramatic language. He focuses on two shows by Rodgers and Hart (A Connecticut Yankee and The Boys from Syracuse) and two by Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific and Cinderella), offering new insights into each one. He concludes with the first serious look at the five neglected and often maligned musicals that Rodgers composed in the 1960s and 1970s, after the death of Hammerstein.